Exciting? Really?
-- Mobile Press-Register
I asked Press-Register editor Mike Marshall if he wanted to explain/defend his paper’s widely criticized headline. He wrote:
I helped write that headline and guess I got caught up in the moment. The reduction of publication days to three per week had been the storyline all day Thursday. I wanted to make sure our readers got that we are also building a digital future. In my mind, that’s the big story.
COMMENTARY ON YESTERDAY’S NEWS ABOUT NEWHOUSE’S NEWSPAPERS:
* “This is a forced march to digital,” says Ken Doctor (New York Times)
* Times-Picayune changes bring strong reactions from subscribers, others (NOLA.com)
* Dear Mr. Newhouse: New Orleans needs a daily Times-Picayune (Capital New York)
* Rieder: If ever a city needed a vibrant journalistic presence, it’s New Orleans (AJR)
* The whole state of Louisiana is corrupt; why would it need journalists? (Philly.com)
* Some public officials tweeted support for Times-Picayune, others were silent (Gambit)
* A digital medium can’t do what the Times-Pic did after the flood (Chicago Reader)
* Editor at Buffett-owned paper on Times-Picayune and boss’s memo (Buffalo News)
* Times-Pic and the completely logical collapse of the newspaper industry (Gawker)
